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Egyptian student becomes active Wikipedia editor
Walaa Abdel Manaem, a master's student in Spanish at Cairo University, learned how to
edit Wikipedia through the Cairo Pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program -- and shortly
after she started translating articles from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia,
Walaa was hooked. Less than one year later, Walaa has more than 8,500 edits on the Arabic
Wikipedia. She's created 68 articles, and is steadily climbing the list of the 100
most active editors on the Arabic Wikipedia. She's also assisting the education
program as a Campus Ambassador at Cairo University. Read more about Walaa's
experiences.
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Students in Greece add photos to Commons
Mina Theofilatou, an instructor at Argostoli Evening High School in Kefalonia, Greece,
wrote a post for the Wikimedia Foundation blog explaining her project to add photographs
to Wikimedia Commons, the free image repository project. Mina and her students have
embarked on two projects: one to catalog edible species on the island of Kefalonia, and
one to photograph every village on the island. Learn more about Mina's project by
reading the blog post.
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Teaching assistant works to improve Arabic Wikipedia
Doaa Seif, a teaching assistant at Ain Shams University's faculty of Al-Alsun, is an
active Wikipedia Ambassador in the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt. Doaa was featured
on the Wikimedia Foundation's blog in a post explaining her desire to improve the
availability of information on the Arabic Wikipedia. The two courses that Doaa is a
teaching assistant for both participated in the Egypt program last term, and she's
also organized workshops teaching students how to edit. Read the profile on Doaa.
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